@MarkandMari@takenomesspapa@BigwetRealism@JohnStreicher1@BenFSaunders A lot of research including Nobel Prize winning research doesn't have immediate economic value until much later. An example of this is CRISPR technology for gene editing. It was initially discovered because scientists happened to be studying a type of bacteria.
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year…
And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0
And paid the reviewers of the articles $0